Lillian Feder

Lillian Feder (July 10, 1923 – January 12, 2007) was an American academic. She was Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Queens College and an emerita professor of the Graduate Center, CUNY, in comparative literature.[1]

Feder was born in New York City and earned her PhD from the University of Minnesota.[2] She published journal articles on solipsism in modern man[3] and on selfhood in literature.[4]

She died on Jan. 12, 2007, in hospice in Stuart, Florida; she had lived in nearby Jensen Beach for five years.[5]

Publications
  • Crowell's Handbook of Classical Literature (New York: Crowell, 1964)[6]
  • Madness in Literature, 1980 (Princeton UP, 1983[7])[8]
  • Ancient Myth in Modern Poetry (Princeton UP)
  • Naipaul's Truth: The Making of a Writer

References
  1. "Faculty". Graduate Center, CUNY. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
  2. Joseph P. Strelka (1980). Literary Criticism and Myth. Pennsylvania State University. p. 277. OCLC 243918991.
  3. Hart, Henry (2013). "For the Confederate and Union Dead Reflections on Civil War Poetry". The Sewanee Review. 121 (2): 205–24.
  4. Feder, Lillian (1960). "Allen Tate's Use of Classical Literature". The Centennial Review of Arts & Science. 4 (1): 89–114.
  5. "Lillian Feder: Jensen Beach, Florida". Legacy.com. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
  6. Zinnes, Harriet (1966). "Reviewed Work(s): Crowell's Handbook of Classical Literature: A Modern Guide to the Drama, Poetry and Prose of Greece and Rome, with Biographies of Their Authors by Lillian Feder". Books Abroad. 40 (1): 97.
  7. "Madness in Literature: Lillian Feder". Princeton University Press. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
  8. Gilbert, Sandra M. (1982). "Reviewed Work(s): Madness in Literature by Lillian Feder". The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 81 (2): 244–46.
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